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| Title | : | Prokleta avlija |
| Author | : | Ivo Andrić |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 120 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1954) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Academic. School. European Literature. Serbian Literature. Novels. Nobel Prize |
Ivo Andrić
Hardcover | Pages: 120 pages Rating: 4.3 | 6836 Users | 165 Reviews
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Prokleta avlija/The Damned Yard (Description from Ivo Andrić Foundation website)The novel is written in 1954. Ćamil, a wealthy young man of Smyrna living in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, is fascinated by the story of Džem, ill-fated brother of the Sultan Bajazet, who ruled Turkey in the fifteenth century. Ćamil, in his isolation, comes to believe that he is Džem, and that he shares his evil destiny: he is born to be a victim of the State. Because of his stories about Džem’s ambitions to overthrow his brother, Ćamil is arrested under suspicion of plotting against the Sultan. He is taken to a prison in Istanbul, where he tells his story, to Petar, a monk.
Out of these exotic materials, Andrić has constructed a book of great clarity, brevity and interest. No doubt it will be read by some as a political parable about the tyranny of the State, but also as a quite simply story about ill-fortune and human misunderstanding, fear and ignorance. Džem and Ćamil are doomed – and the certainty of their persecution is sometimes relieved, sometimes intensified by the stupidity and fright of the people who cross their ill-starred lives.
Construction takes up most of the book’s space: the central story of Džem as related by Ćamil lasts only a chapter or two. For the rest of the time the reader strips layer off layer, as one narrator passes him on the next. There is an interesting passage that helps to explain this method, at the moment when Ćamil starts narrating Džem’s story in the first person. “I” is a word, we are told, which fixes the position of the speaker in such a way that the exercise of will is no longer possible, and the speaker strength is exceeded – strength, presumably, to break out of the identification that all his past actions and thoughts force upon him when he uses the word. “I” is both a confession and an imprisonment. The fact that the novel passes the reader on from one narrator to the next rather suggests that the author is taking constant evasive action, lest he betray himself or his reader into the kind of “personal confession” which seals the fate of Ćamil. What exactly this game of form flirting with meaning signifies, must be left to the individual reader.
The movement is centripetal, towards Džem’s story, and then disperses. Details within the story are made to mimic this form. Thus when Peter receives the message telling him of his impending release:
“Two younger prisoners...were chasing around using him as the centerpoint of ever narrowing circles. Annoyed, he tried to break away from these exuberant youths when one of them brushed against him and he felt a folded scrap of paper thrust into his hand. The youths continued their chase but now in widening circles...”
The reader is led on just such a chase in the course of the novel. The effect of this is to make the plot seem more like a poetic image than an ordinary plot: capable, therefore, of as many meanings as are the images of an allusive poem. Yet the language is simple and direct, not at all “poetic”. The characters are remarkable alive, even in conversation. Karađoz, the governor of the goal, is a spidery authoritarian, who loves to torment the charges he loves. The prisoners “complained about the way one complains about one’s life and curses one’s destiny...it would have been hard for them to imagine life without him”.
“The Devil’s Yard” is justified, as all symbolic and figurative novels must be, by the extent to which it touches the emotions. It is extremely moving. Fear, horror, despair, amusement at times – all these indicate that the threat of the meaning has been recognized.
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Prokleta Avlija (the Damned Yard) will be a great source of pleasure to anyone who has read and enjoyed Ivo Andric's Bosnian Trilogy (comprised of the Bridge on the Drina, the Woman from Sarajevo and the Bosnian Chronicles). However, if one has not read at least the first volume (the Bridge on the Drina), Prokleta Avlija will be a confusing and highly disappointing work.Prokleta Avlija is a collection of five tales in which Brother Peter an elderly Franciscan monk imparts his wisdom gained fromVery surprised with this one,I have no words to describe all the feels I got from reading this amazing artwork.I loved the writing styles,all the characters,I had no issues connecting with the characters,Ivo did an amazing job here and the only problem to me was unsolved ''death'' of one of the characters.I wanted to know what really happened to him but..whatever.Maybe it's better not knowing.I can for sure say that this is the best school requested reads I've ever read. Recommend this book a
What is left after a man dies?People engaged in computing the estate of a dead man who, only a couple of days ago, was as alive as they are now, have a peculiar look. They represent victorious life, which goes its own way and has its own necessities. But, victors of a pretty poor sort, their only merit consists in their having outlived the dead. They remind one of looters, but looters who are sure to go scot free and who know that the rightful owner can never return and catch them. Not that they
Absolutely loved it! Ivo Andrić is definitely writer I'll read more from. The outer frame of Andrić's narrative, which is a system of concentric circles - the story of a story, is a scene of fra Peter's funeral. Snow covers the grave and this is what remains: "the general whiteness which stretched as far as the eye could see merged imperceptibly with the grey desert of the sky still full of snow."Entering world of Devils Yard, we encounter people of all creeds, vocations and age. They are mad
This book is one of the books I most enjoyed reading. I found it funny that this book is an example is that I can't run away from the Borgias, as everything I research during these months is returning to them.What I loved best about this book is that I felt that the prison Prokleta avlija is a kind of Limbo, where everything is escaping time and contains only stories of the souls trapped in it.
I would probably never have read this one if it hadn't been for the school but this was a great book. I really enjoyed the frame narrative.
The powerful visual quality of this book always reminds me of the Balkan refugee crisis. It is a drama set in an Ottoman remand centre in Istanbul, where a Bosnian Catholic priest is detained for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But like everything in the Balkans, there is far more to it than that. In many respects it tells the tale of the history and power relations within the Balkans, which are as relevant today as is the 1990s refugee crisis. Above all, it is evocative of wartime
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